Friday, November 27, 2020

Another memory related to Thanksgiving

 

             Living with a grateful and a generous set of mind and heart is not just a one day or weekend celebration.  As my husband Jim matured and grew as a Christian, so did these qualities of character and spirit.  A story I love to tell about Jim is a breakfast conversation the morning after we had received almost $80,00 from his mother’s will when finalized.  This was about four years ago now.  After finishing his breakfast, he came back up to the counter dining spot with a 3 x 5 card and a pen.  He wanted to get right to work on deciding how we were going to use some of the money, not for ourselves or what we could buy/save.

            No, his thoughts were about who we could give money to.  I replied, “Could we savor for just a moment having such a large sum of money in our account?”  Just days later, we got on to uses for the money, but this short conversation clearly presents Jim at his saintly best, ever the ready servant.   

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